The reason Sanghis are wondering aloud who is "funding" stand-up comedians is because they can't imagine doing things without being "funded". Their entire online edifice after all, is based on pay-to-abuse. The stand-up comedian's answer of course is somewhat anti-climactic:

Not enough people are funding them. Not enough institutions are funding the Arts. This is why comedians, artists, writers, actors have always had to build their own markets. They have not only had to create Art yes, but they've also had to find people who will consume it.

You've never heard of a struggling engineer, have you? Because unlike the Arts, engineers and doctors have career frameworks waiting for them when they finish studies. Comedians had to write, research, perform, and market - all of it. So of course they are a threat to the system.

The system where the definition of success is measuring up to the standards of a maai-baap. The system which seeps out of our education system and infiltrates the political one as well. Sanghi confusion about how comedians do what they do stems from a complete inability to...

..process an Artist's way of life. This is also why we keep hearing refrains like "this isn't REAL art". Because obviously, who better to decide what Art is or isn't than the idiot who has looked down upon Artists his whole life and now wants people dead because they made a joke.

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